There is always microwave. Current technology will fry an auto electrical system pronto. When they get them downsized they will be formidable as well.
Wow! We're almost living Star Trek!
Anna, do they have a deer lazer yet? 
Ben
Not that I know of Ben, but wouldn't that take the sport out of it real fast ? I have seen some remarkable air rifles over in Europe with incredible compression ratios. They are for small game but
they are on a par with any 22lr out there. The most popular ones are the 5mm rifles and you can sink
a lot of money into one of them. Walther toyed with the 7 & 6mm bores but the range just wasnt
there. The 5mm still had the overall best performance of them all even over the 177.
There were rumors about a Manlicker 5mm that could rate up there with a 22 mag but I never saw
one or knew of anyone who had. The areas I hung around in we're mostly Belgium and Switzerland.
Both these country's are real big on firearms education if you want to enter into that sport. In a way
that isn't a bad idea it certainly would weed out any lose cannons and enhance safety. To me it is
a more sane approach like having to take a course and pass a test before getting a drivers license.
Something the NRA has been harping about now for years instead of banning everything or removing
someone's rights. Finland has its own set of certification that's pretty well set up on this model as
well. Anyway back on topic , microwave is another good alternative but once more. All electro
magnetic spectrum weapons are going to be bulky and consume a lot of power. Not that they will never become a reality, but I feel the rails are the last generation in the evolution of the projectile
type weapon in the context of our current technology and limitations. Any beam type weapon is
going to be in a totally different arena in the definition of a theater type of weapons platform.
It's sort of like comparing a cross bow to a modern day rifle. The comparison just isn't there in how
the weapon not only operates. But how it interacts with its target or how its intended to disable that
target. Get the size and weight down and then the destructive power of that weapon will become
secondary. Just like the advancements made in bullet ballistics have become over the last century.
Rails do not operate on compression or combustion, they are more like launch platforms. So the
age old conception of a smart bullet could well become a reality with them. In other words you can
run but you can not hide . Incenary bullets, explosive, fragmentation, the list is endless on what can
be projected from a rail . Just saying .
